Microsoft introduces a new mouse

Touch sensitive screens are great on a mobile phone and are much better than keys. Touch is also fantastic on a tablet and it is intuitive and easy to use. Touch on a desktop or laptop computer is completely different and despite Microsoft building touch capabilities into Windows 8 and lots of laptops having touch, many people still prefer to use a mouse. Perhaps that is why Microsoft has introduced a brand new mouse.

Some mice are big and expensive, some have numerous buttons and functions, some have trailing wires, but the Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 1850 is none of those things.

This is a compact and lightweight model that is small enough to travel with or to keep on your desktop next to your computer - it supports both Windows PCs and Apple Macs. It is also symmetrical and so it can be used by left or right handers.

This device is battery-powered and uses 2.4GHz wireless technology, communicating with the computer using a mini transceiver plugged into a USB port. Apparently the tiny transceiver can be stowed away inside the mouse when you are travelling so it won't get lost. That's a useful feature.